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Tape Drives For Backup

Why tapes? CDs and DVDs are much less expensive and less prone to fail.
We use DDS3 tapes at work, and I hate them.
The only reason I could see for using magnetic tapes would be for extremely long term storage in a temp controled enviroment.
 
I've got a Certance STT320000A drive here that uses Travan tapes. You could have it for the price of shipping. It was working fine when I pulled it out. (I switched to DVD's) But that's not working out so well either.

Long story.

Edit: I've got an Onstream DI30 here also. They are out of business for good now. I have the software that works for XP. Shipping and it's yours.
 
I don't see how tape can be long for this world when hard drives are so cheap. I don't know too much about the new Iomega Rev backup device except that it looks like it uses notebook HDDs in ininterchangeable modules for backup media... Using HDDs for backup is the wave of the future - ride it!

.bh.
 
Unfortunately, there aren't any steals in "usable" tape drives. Yes, some small businesses can make use of DDS3 or DDS4 tapes. Or, maybe DAT72. But not that many. And very PC enthusiasts have so "little" data that it will all fit on one or two DDS4 tapes.

The tape drives that start to get into really "practical" capacities for most enthusiasts are pricey (read $1000-range), even as used items. Not to mention the tapes and the required SCSI controller and cabling....
 
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